Jan. 6 committee asks wife of Justice Clarence Thomas to testify
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Are the Supreme Court and the January 6th select committee on a collision course? |
| 0:09.4 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:11.4 | New scrutiny over the emails between a Trump lawyer pushing the election lies in Ginny |
| 0:16.9 | Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. |
| 0:21.7 | Plus a new reminder today of just how bloodthirsty some members of that MAGA mob were, then a deadly |
| 0:29.0 | shooting inside an Alabama church. |
| 0:31.2 | Police say a 71-year-old man stood up and opened fire at attendees of a potluck dinner. |
| 0:36.2 | What we're now learning about the suspect. |
| 0:38.6 | And just as summer temperatures heat up thousands of kids could be left high and dry, why hundreds |
| 0:43.1 | of public pools and summer camps may not open. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome to the lead MJ Tap. |
| 0:52.9 | We start today with our politics lead, the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, could be dragged |
| 0:58.2 | into the forefront of the investigation into the January 6th insurrection. |
| 1:03.2 | Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says that she is willing |
| 1:08.2 | to meet with the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack. |
| 1:11.2 | The request for her interview comes after the committee says they have emails between |
| 1:17.2 | Ginny Thomas and former Trump attorney John Eastman. |
| 1:20.3 | Eastman, of course, the architect of the delusional, unconstitutional theory that Vice President |
| 1:25.6 | Pence could single-handedly have overturned the election. |
| 1:29.6 | While the contents of the emails between the two have not been revealed to Eastman and |
| 1:33.1 | emails to a different Trump lawyer, according to The New York Times, seem to have insight |
| 1:39.5 | and knowledge that Supreme Court justices were in a quote, heated fight over a possible |
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